Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Singapore Airlines has completed a firm order for 25 more widebody aircraft from Airbus, comprising five A380 superjumbos and 20 A350-900s. The parties signed the firm order in December, some two months after <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2012-10-24/singapore-airlines-order-more-a380s-and-a350-xwbs">Singapore announced its intention</a> to enter into the contract.


Singapore Airlines has now placed three orders for the A380, making it the second largest customer of the world’s largest passenger airplane. It already flies 19 A380s in revenue service. In the midsize category, the new A350-900 order sees the airline double its backlog for the aircraft to 40. Singapore plans to use the A350-900s on medium- and long-haul routes.


SIA expects deliveries of the latest tranche of airplanes to start in 2017. It also holds delivery positions for another 20 airplanes from a previous order, the first of which it expects in 2015.


As part of the deal, Airbus has agreed to take back SIA’s five A340-500s, which the airline plans to remove from service in the fourth quarter. The removal of that fleet will result in the cessation of nonstop flights between Singapore and Los Angeles and between Singapore and Newark. 
 
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